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The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has received authorization from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) under the Regulation 48.1 framework to open its Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual contracts to U.S. institutional investors. KC Lam, Head of Crypto Derivatives at SGX Group, stated that previously U.S. participants were unable to trade these contracts, but they are now permitted direct access to its trading system.Since its launch at the end of November 2025, SGX's crypto perpetual contracts have accumulated a trading volume of $5.8 billion (approximately 400,000 lots), with an average daily trading volume of 1,300 lots ($19 million) as of August. Bitcoin accounts for 66% of open contracts and 83% of average daily trading volume, with a single-day peak trading volume of 11,500 lots (notional value of $145 million). Lam indicated that as the FIS backend integration is fully ready, they will assist U.S. clearing members in onboarding clients in the next month or two.Unlike crypto-native platforms, SGX's perpetual contracts have no expiration date but employ a margin call and collateral top-up mechanism instead of automatic liquidation, separating trading and clearing based on traditional futures market infrastructure. Stablecoins are not accepted as collateral, and the contract benchmark index is jointly developed by SGX and CoinDesk Indices. SGX's next step is to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum futures and options.

According to SoSoValue data, on September 9th Eastern Time, the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $34.7535 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was Blackrock Staked ETH ETF ETHB, with a single-day net inflow of $22.9376 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ETHB has reached $798 million.The second was Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of $9.7144 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ETHA has reached $12.883 billion. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $15.688 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 5.2%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $13.203 billion.

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Department of Commerce has allocated up to $100 million each to three quantum computing companies: Rigetti, D-Wave, and Quantinuum, totaling up to $300 million, to expand hardware, manufacturing, and error correction systems, while simultaneously acquiring minority stakes in the three companies.Meanwhile, Bitcoin and Ethereum developers are accelerating the advancement of post-quantum cryptography upgrade plans. The Ethereum Foundation has set December 2029 as the deadline for the base layer quantum resistance upgrade, covering the execution layer, consensus layer, and data layer; although there is no unified timeline for Bitcoin, proposals BIP-360 (post-quantum output types) and BIP-361 (phasing out ECDSA and Schnorr signatures) have been accelerated, with researchers also viewing 2029 as a critical window for completing a trustworthy migration path.

Ethlabs stated that it has reviewed over 60 EIPs proposed for the Ethereum Hegotá upgrade and updated its priority recommendations, focusing on four areas: censorship resistance, transaction confirmation speed, native account abstraction, and performance optimization.Specifically, Ethlabs supports FOCIL to enhance Ethereum's censorship resistance and neutrality; it recommends shortening time slots for the first time in the Hegotá upgrade through Quick Slots and creating conditions for further reductions in the future; it supports achieving native account abstraction through Frame Transactions, introducing passkey wallets, transaction delegation, using tokens to pay Gas, batch transactions, as well as better privacy and quantum security support. Additionally, Ethlabs emphasizes that client and protocol design should continuously prioritize performance, using optimization results to increase L1 capacity, shorten time slots, and reduce node operation requirements.

According to the official announcement, Tether has announced the joint launch of a $400 million private credit fund, StableFund, in collaboration with Fasanara Capital, aiming to attract third-party institutional capital to $3 billion.The fund will provide short-term, asset-backed credit financing to small and medium-sized enterprises in over 60 countries worldwide. Tether will provide USDT settlement infrastructure and financing opportunities, while Fasanara will act as the investment manager.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated, "USDT is designed to be a frictionless global currency available around the clock," and through this fund, Tether's financing network will be transformed into a direct capital channel flowing to the businesses and communities that need it most.

Tether froze approximately $39.3 million USDT across 10 addresses on the Tron network earlier today, which are related to Xinbi Guarantee. Insiders revealed that Xinbi Guarantee is a guaranteed trading market that emerged around 2022 on Telegram.Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs has described it as one of the largest illegal cryptocurrency markets in Southeast Asia, stating that the platform has processed a cumulative transaction volume of about $24.2 billion. The on-chain tracking platform MistTrack was the first to disclose the news regarding the frozen USDT. This freeze indicates that Tether is further taking on-chain asset freezing measures to restrict addresses deemed to be associated with high risk or suspected illegal activities.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net outflow of Ethereum spot ETFs yesterday was $24.2921 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow in a single day was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a net inflow of $9.8924 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of FETH has reached $2.287 billion.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow in a single day was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETH, with a net outflow of $24.6098 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ETH has reached $1.903 billion. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $15.716 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 5.19%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $13.169 billion.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed that Tether's P2P technology team is developing a censorship-resistant and fault-tolerant decentralized peer-to-peer search engine called Unstoppable Search Engine. The architecture supports horizontal scaling across thousands of distributed nodes and employs a fault-tolerant structure for data self-organization to maintain high availability and censorship resistance.Ardoino stated that the research and development is progressing smoothly, and the complete archived data of Wikipedia has been distributed and stored across 100 distributed nodes in the testing environment, achieving millisecond-level retrieval with excellent performance.

Scroll Governance Forum posted that the team will recently apply AI extensively in operations and product development. Previously, core chain operations required over 20 engineers, but now it is completed by fewer dedicated engineers in conjunction with AI agents, while maintaining existing usability and security standards. The team believes that blockchain can provide a trusted coordination layer to define and execute rules, and ZK can help agents interact with credentials, private data, and computations without exposing underlying information.The team is building an interconnected product stack: Compass is an iOS application that can access the large models and functions provided by the Compass API, and includes VPN and eSIM; Compass API is the AI routing infrastructure, connecting over 30 large models; CENO provides a trust layer through ZK, protecting credentials, agent context, and privacy computations; USX is used for payments and settlements; SCR continues to coordinate governance; the Scroll network serves as a trust and coordination layer. CENO has reached out to over 30 potential clients, of which 12 are participating in proof of concept testing.The team plans to gradually transform Scroll from a general public chain into a dedicated network centered around Compass and the AI product stack, with an overall transition expected to take about nine months. According to the current plan, SCR will migrate to the Ethereum mainnet to maintain accessibility and liquidity, with supply and token economics remaining unchanged, and will continue to serve as a governance token. This post is only a progress update, not an official proposal or vote, and further proposals regarding the network transformation and matters requiring DAO approval will be made separately.

Blockchain explorer Etherscan announced the launch of Etherscan Flow, which can transform the complex maze of transactions into a clear flow of funds map, showing how funds move and providing on-chain verification for each hop. Users can build flow charts from scratch or use the Etherscan Flow skill to let the agent build automatically.

The Ethereum Foundation stated on the X platform that the Trezor hardware wallet now supports the "Clear Signing" feature through the ERC-7730 standard, making transactions more readable and understandable on the hardware device.This progress is the result of the Clear Signing working group promoted under the foundation's "Trillion Dollar Security Initiative," aimed at reducing the risk of users suffering asset losses due to "blind signing" of unclear transactions and encouraging more wallets and decentralized applications to participate.

According to The Defiant, the decentralized lending protocol Morpho deployed its fixed-term, fixed-rate lending agreement Midnight to Ethereum on September 8, expanding the product from the Base network to Ethereum, allowing Ethereum users to access USDC loans collateralized by WBTC or cbBTC. Morpho co-founder Merlin Egalite stated that the Ethereum launch will start with the "USDC | cbBTC and USDC | WBTC markets" and will gradually expand.The core difference between Midnight and Morpho Blue lies in interest rate certainty. Blue uses open loans where interest rates fluctuate according to a formula; Midnight, on the other hand, trades credit units at market-priced rates with fixed terms, allowing borrowers to determine financing costs in advance, and lenders can lock in returns instead of bearing interest rate changes with each block. Midnight lenders purchase credit units at prices below the one-to-one redemption value at maturity.However, the largest potential source of funds for Midnight remains constrained. The Morpho Vaults, holding approximately $5 billion in deposits, can only allocate to the Morpho Blue market until the DAO enables the Midnight configuration. Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot stated that enabling the Vault configuration requires just one DAO transaction, but Vault activation is expected to be achieved in the fourth quarter. At launch, the total deposits in the Ethereum Midnight market were approximately $7.41 million, with outstanding loans of about $2.63 million.

According to MistTrack monitoring, Tether froze approximately 39.27 million USDT across 10 addresses on the Tron network a few hours ago, which are related to Xinbi Guarantee.Previously, Tether had frozen funds related to Huiwang Guarantee, and this action seems to be another blow against illegal hosting platforms on Telegram.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain Ethereum OG whale sold 11,000 ETH through Wintermute one hour ago, worth 27.23 million USD.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the net inflow of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States is 398 BTC, with a net inflow of 8,937 BTC over 7 days; the net outflow of Ethereum ETFs is 19,667 ETH, with a net inflow of 15,939 ETH over 7 days.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, last week Strategy did not increase or decrease its holdings of BTC, currently holding 845,050 BTC, valued at approximately 6.6125 billion USD, with an average cost of 75,412 USD, resulting in an unrealized profit of approximately 2.398 billion USD.The Ethereum treasury company Bitmine continued to increase its holdings by 28,086 ETH last week, valued at approximately 6.885 million USD, with an average purchase price of about 2,451 USD. Currently, Bitmine holds a total of 5,929,198 ETH, valued at approximately 14.651 billion USD, with an average cost of 3,347 USD, resulting in an unrealized loss of approximately 5.194 billion USD.

According to data from DefiLlama, the DEX trading volume on BSC in the past 24 hours reached 1.327 billion USD, surpassing Ethereum (1.3 billion USD), and only behind Solana (2.872 billion USD) and Robinhood Chain (1.512 billion USD).In addition, BSC's revenue in the past 24 hours reached 1.99 million USD, while Robinhood Chain's revenue in the past 24 hours reached 1.91 million USD.

CoinMarketCap released the RWA perpetual contract market report for August 2026. The report shows that from December 29, 2025, to August 31, 2026, the cumulative trading volume of the RWA perpetual contract market has exceeded $3.16 trillion.From the platform distribution perspective, Binance leads with approximately $1.59 trillion and a market share of 50.4%. Hyperliquid ranks second with $542.8 billion, accounting for 17.2%; OKX ranks third with $345.1 billion, accounting for 10.9%; Bitget ranks fourth with $238.2 billion, accounting for 7.5%. The top four platforms together account for about 86% of the market share.

According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation's protocol team has released the priority list for the Hegotá upgrade EIP, setting the target date for achieving "quantum safety" on Ethereum's layer one in terms of execution, consensus, and data to December 2029.In terms of the consensus layer, FOCIL (EIP-7805) is listed as S-level "must launch," enhancing censorship resistance by mandating the inclusion of public mempool transactions; in terms of the execution layer, Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) is also a "must launch," laying the groundwork for native account abstraction and custom signatures, gas payment, etc., by splitting transactions into programmable "frames" for validation, gas payment, and execution, thereby improving post-quantum safety readiness. The protocol team stated that starting from the "Glamsterdam" fork in Q4 2026, subsequent forks need to be completed in an average of about 7.2 months to ensure the achievement of the minimum viable post-quantum safety milestone before "Q-day" around 2030.